Gnome 2.26

drescherjm · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:29 pm Post subject:

I have mine here:

http://github.com/drescherjm/jmdgentoooverlay/blob/cad0a4a6a77820c3ccf37e0a44caaa5da391c54f/Other/portage/package.keywords/gnome-2.26

I created this before gnome-2.26.X hit portage so possibly more is needed. They tend to mask more (and even hard mask) packages when pachages are moved from overlays to the tree.

BTW, We probably should move this. I mean discussion about installing gnome-2.26.X probably should not be in a sticky gnome-2.24 thread.
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lex82 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 235 Location: Italy

You've been both very kind. Thank you. :wink:

Here's the situation:

red-wolf76 · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:49 pm Post subject:

lex82 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 235 Location: Italy

I guess I need to enable the GNOME overlay to have gnome-power-manager 2.26 and fast-user-switch-applet 2.26. Some C++ bindings, instead, seems to be missing (i.e. plotmm).
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red-wolf76 · Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 6:30 pm Post subject:

lex82 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 235 Location: Italy

lex82 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 235 Location: Italy

I still have unresolved dependencies:

Icer · Guru Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 386 Location: @home

Hello folks.

I have been wondering when does the 2.26 gnome go stable. I know the answer too... 'It's ready when it is ready'. Ehh.

To track down the situation of gnome packages for Gentoo I have been watching the gentoo-portage as well as some of the developers web pages. The dev's have lists of packages with their versions and stability status. All nice information. However why not have the lists in some logical location? Dev's probably point out that they use the pages for tracking their own progress, but that's not to say they wouldn't be useful for the casual users too. Problem is that there may be information available but it must be searched from blog posts, forum posts, package lists, bugzilla etc.

The gnome setup guide is old. I did not check KDE or xfce guides but such things should be updated at least annually. But preferably for each new version for each DE. So I was wondering if there are any updates coming for the doc's?

Also should there be a list of default gnome programs and use flags somewhere too? Which use flag enables or disables what?
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pizzach · Apprentice Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 195

wel · Apprentice Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 207

Updated to Gnome 2.26.3. Strangely enough, any application from gnome-media-2.26.0 package refuses to load. Tracing a bit I got lost on gstelement.c from GStreamer. Anyway, this is the error message I've got from gstreamer-properties.

relaxssl · n00b Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 4

GNOME 2.28 is the latest version of the GNOME Desktop

drescherjm · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:17 pm Post subject:

Drone4four · Apprentice Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 213

How do I emerge GNOME 2.28? When ever the Gentoo developers deem it stable enough?
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drescherjm · Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 11:38 pm Post subject:

It's not in portage. Parts of it are in the gnome-overlay but I am not sure that is ready yet.
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erikderzweite · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 143

I've read in the news that GNOME-2.26 is stable now. It seems to be the case on amd64, but not on x86. Am I doing something wrong or is 2.26 not that stable yet? I get actual updates for other packages, so I assume that my synching is ok.

drescherjm · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:30 pm Post subject:

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synn · n00b Joined: 11 Dec 2009 Posts: 25

Gnome 2.26 is stable now. You can check it out.

timeBandit · Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:00 pm Post subject:

drescherjm · Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:33 pm Post subject:

Can this be thread be removed from the sticky status?
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timeBandit · Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:47 pm Post subject:

pizzach · Apprentice Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 195

Thanks timebandit. Things were starting to get a bit creapy with how that 2.24 thread wouldn't die. Was actually starting to wonder if no Gentoo moderators were watching the forums. :lol:

The reply count is also less insane now.

timeBandit · Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 3:20 pm Post subject:

Icer · Guru Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 386 Location: @home

After updating to gnome 2.26 I had various issues with the sounds. I have switched to pulseaudio because I guess that is what the gnome dev's are wishing we should use.

So today I got finally the audio working at gnome again. I had disabled the gconf module loading in /etc/pulse/default.pa. I enabled the module again and there is sound again.

Other thing that was causing issues was the system sound theme. If I was using some audio application and there was some sound output from the sound theme then the application sound went kind of disabled and there was noise and cracking sounds. Thus I went to System -> Preferences -> Sound -> and on the Sound Effects tab I disabled the sound theme. This helped with the applications sound.

Also I had to fight with Amarok too to get any sound of it. Ehh...

This pulseaudio thing has been IMO a big mess and there has been no clear update path provided for gentoo users. There are conflicting howto's and pulse audio wikis and some tell use the pulseaudio server and others say do not use it. All this leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Anyway now things seem to work again. Although ever since I started to use the pulseaudio the system has felt less responsive and I don't like that one bit. Maybe I could try get rid of the pulseaudio altogether provided that there are a good instructions for that somewhere.
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drescherjm · Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:59 pm Post subject:

Last summer when I switched to 2.26 I did not have pulseaudio and I also did not have a single sound related problem with gnome. I have since switched to gnome 2.28 and then more recently back to kde-4.3 so I do not use gnome as often.
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